Christiana M. Harkulich

Highly probable I'm going to have more than 100 students again this semester, which means this academic year I'll give out over 220 final grades. With no TA support. The center will not hold.

As a non-reader of Rachel Reid’s work and that entire literature ecosystem, I was completely prepared for tragedy, grief and Queer pain in Heated Rivalry. After all that’s all we saw in the 80s/90s. What I wasn’t ready for was feeling hope and possibility. Narratives truly shape how we navigate life

The reactions to the ending of Heated Rivalry is why capital-R Romance people will fight and die on the hill of the Happily Ever After/Happily For Now ending. That ending is load-bearing. It's earned. It's the soothing hug after the story took a bat to your emotions.

one insidious thing about gen AI is it's not just causing us to mistrust dodgy images, it's also making us mistrust images that look perfectly normal. this is gaslighting in a very literal sense bc the technology is undermining the trust we have in our own ability to perceive reality!

Chicken riggies and salt potatoes in Syracuse. So yum.

How you know I'm in grading jail. I'm listening to 90's house music before 10am.

I want to leave academia and write holiday romance films. Is that a thing?

It has always been so obvious that the backlash to MeToo isn’t about whether the abuse is happening but whether people are allowed to want it to stop

Thieves steal €600,000 worth of gold from Paris's Natural History Museum The break-in on Tuesday morning, targeting gold samples of 'immeasurable heritage value,' comes amid a wave of robberies at French cultural institutions.

have i become overly fixated on the louvre heist? maybe. but there have MULTIPLE french museum heists in the last several weeks??

600k worth of gold from the natural history museum! 10mil in ceramics from limoges!

www.lemonde.fr/en/france/ar...
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I have graded 2 of my major lingering assignments. Huzzah for me. More to do tomorrow

My feelings, exactly.

I care. Thats not prince and it has tricked me twice.

Eternal flame at Martin Luther King Jr.’s Atlanta burial site destroyed Police say the man also urinated in the reflective pool.

Extinguishing MLK's Eternal Flame is both outrageous and a hell of a metaphor for right now www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

Seeing many posts about how ICE isn't trained. That's not really the problem. The problem is what they were sent to do, not whether they're qualified to do it.

That is a commitment of a rewatch. I commend you

So the carneighgie spelling is how Carnegie is pronounced in Pittsburgh where Andrew Carnegie is from!

As others have pointed out, the idea that we can control their behavior by modeling respectability (cooperating with the compulsory grief around Kirk, for example, and not saying truthful/angry things about him) is akin to an abused person's belief that they can control the abuse by being perfect.

ICE doubling its immigrant detention facilities—and increasing space for families with children— is chilling.
Helping out Adam here who is so shocked he’s become pun-less.
But it’s bad.
Makes me think about the old debtor prisons, where whole families lived.

Yes. All of this

I'm adding a why ai is bad is an auto 0 in my course mini lecture for the first day this fall.

Substack doesn't just let Nazis turn a profit. Now, it’s promoting Nazi content, swastikas and all. That’s not just a shift in platform policy. It reflects a shift in our broader social landscape.

Elon is building a satellite cage around the world so only those with access and wealth will be able to see the stars.
We are being robbed of the night sky and the shared humanity that has come from staring into the night sky and being humbled by its vastness over our time as a species.

I mean, artists are also workers?

y'all I have so much writing to do in the next month during the rise of fascism, before the semester starts. Like. Why?

One week after show closing, finally getting back to writing. Knocked out a review this morning, and did some writing on the textbook this afternoon! #amwriting

Hour 5 of endless fireworks by my neighbors. My poor dog

Here are three pieces of life advice for survival under a government that hates you, from a Native. None of them are going to be the prepper bullshit I see currently circulating around- that's all bad advice, by the way, that one's free.

Nooooooooo. This was so fun.